On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Jonathan Campbell wrote:> one, that today's graphics cards have relatively obscene amounts of RAM on > them even if you're not using it. If you're running it as a server and not > using it for 3D graphics, why not mount the VRAM on the graphics card as a > filesystem and store things there to get some extra space?

How fast is it? For instance, what are your bonnie++ scores for vramfs vstmpfs vs something on disk?

It seems like you could at the very least put a swap file on it that'sfaster than one on disk.